He typed a command into his master console:
“What exactly is a Bot Master Key?”
> deploy --target cardhaven.com --task purchase --quantity 50
Within seconds, 200 bot instances spun up across infected residential computers (most were unwitting Windows machines whose owners had downloaded "free cheat engines" for video games). The bots solved captchas using a $2-per-1,000-solves AI service. They cycled through 5,000 stolen proxy IPs.